On deliberating on the propriety of proceeding to
Onondago

, we learned that having been engaged
in the war, they had introduced the smallpox
into the settlement, of which several had died &
a number were now ill. We were further
informed that Ephrain Webster their interpreter
was absent from home; from these circumstances
we concluded the views of the Committee would
not be answered by making them a visit at
the present time

We were accompanied in the visit by our
friend Charles Willetts

, who has been nearly four
months at Oneida & its neighbourhood, and it is but
justice to him to state that his presence & services
amongst them have been very useful at a time
when they were much wanted; and we are
thence led to give our opinion of the necessity
of having a friends' family resident amongst them.

Oneida 25 of 8 mo 1814 James Mott Tripp Mosher,
Ruth Spencer, Phebe Howes, Samuel Parsons